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Anti-heroes make for compelling subjects, particularly in a world as unjust as the one we live in, and 1970s American cinema has absolutely no shortage of them. Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire revisits the era by dramatising an infamous 1977 hostage stand-off staged by Tony Kiritsis, who rigged mortgage broker Richard Hall – who he…
Channeling the spirits of movies like Mean Girls and The Craft, Forbidden Fruits follows a group of young women working at a mall as they fight over group control, seek belonging, and experiment with withcraft. It’s a whimsical send-up of mall life where a coven operates out of a hip store’s fitting rooms. But director and co-writer Meredith Alloway also keeps a keen eye on the…
Prime’s new series “Bait” opens with its protagonist, Shah Latif (Riz Ahmed), donned in a black tuxedo, hair meticulously styled as he does a screen test for the newest James Bond film. We quickly learn that this cold open, in which Ahmed delivers all the suaveness one could expect from the next actor to inhabit…
2023’s “Jury Duty” was one of TV’s most pleasant surprises that year—tucked away on Amazon’s now-defunct ad-supported streamer, Freevee, it was a curious blend of courtroom drama, reality TV, and prank show that positioned an unsuspecting subject (in that season’s case, mild-mannered juror Ronald Gladden) in the middle of a fake scenario (a court case)…
Screenwriter Drew Goddard reteamed with “The Martian” author Andy Weir to return to space with “Project Hail Mary.” It stars Ryan Gosling as a teacher-turned astronaut who joins forces with an alien to discover why all the stars except one are dying. In an interview, Goddard talked about writing dialogue for smart characters, why his…
There’s a slogan that goes around the city that hosts the SXSW Film Festival that’s on T-shirts, posters, and bumper stickers: “Keep Austin Weird.” The three films in this dispatch are doing their part. Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine’s “The Peril at Pincer Point” is aggressively weird, and that’s why it works. It commits to…
Two of the more interesting synopses in this year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival program revealed themselves at the Zach Theater in Austin on back-to-back days to start the festival. While the overall profile of SXSW has dimmed a bit in the last couple years as streaming service originals have dominated too much of the…
When Conan O’Brien was doing press before the 98th Academy Awards, he would sometimes talk about his ideal scenario for the show. “I think you want something to go wrong occasionally,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “I like that feeling. Humans are really good at noticing when something’s spontaneous. When something goes a little off,…
In the aftermath of the intense showdown with Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in the season three finale, the newest season of “Invincible” doesn’t give its characters, or its audience, time to breathe. With many heroes incapacitated or dead, Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) is left to shoulder the weight of responsibility, not only for The Guardians…
It’s always fun to pick out themes of a festival and wonder what they say about the state of the world. Of course, it seems like every other Sundance has a dozen road-trip movies about families finding each other, but the truly unexpected visual or narrative motifs are often the most fascinating. What does it…